Geography 8

1. the largest ocean
3. an angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds
4. science of map-making
6. a member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native
8. the second largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation, named in honour of a Russian explorer
12. a section of the Arctic Ocean north of eastern Russia between the Taymyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands. It is icebound most of the year.
14. name of a bird and country
15. an elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom

2. the continent which was discovered the last but one. It was considered to be the unknown Southern Land
5. Russian geographer and explorer of Central Asia
6. A Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole
7. the earth’s largest continent. It consists of two parts of the world
9. a journey, especially an arduous or hazardous one, undertaken with extensive planning and a definite objective
10. a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages
11. the edge of a sea, the land along lake, or wide river
13. a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake